Today's News

I have just spoken to my sister Sally who has traveled from New Jersey to Washington to be with Mom for her cochlear implant activation. I called her on her cell phone during a time I thought would be after the appointment.

The big news is that my mother's implant has worked!

She can hear sound but it will take a while for her brain to make sense of all the new sounds coming through the formerly disused auditory nerve. Mom says that the everyday sounds of life are quite musical. Mom had popped on to Sally's phone to speak to me for a minute. She couldn't hear what I was saying back, but we got the gist of the conversation through help from sister Sal.

As previously reported, I set up my aquarium over the weekend. Yesterday I started putting fish in it. I had thirteen Cardinal Tetras and added in five Bronze Corydoras - (Bronze Corys). The water temperature in the new bigger tank was still a few degrees cooler than the tank in the kitchen, but I figured that if I had a long enough acclimatizing period (over an hour) the fish could stand the change. A more patient person would have waited a day or two longer, but I have never claimed to be a patient person.

I had a little surprise in the new aquarium when I came home today after work. It wasn't fish belly up, they had laid eggs! It turns out that Bronze Corys, triggered by a drop in temperature will spawn!!!

Here they are - eggs stuck fast to the side of the aquarium.

I'll wait until the eggs are a day or two older and then I'll place them in the smaller and now empty kitchen aquarium. The eggs can hatch in there without fear of being eaten and I can fuss over them, feeding the hatchlings special baby fish food.